Interesting Engineering
Created: Aug 8, 2022 10:06 AM
Researchers at Stanford University have found an odd pattern while observing the X-rays from the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away. The black hole, it appears, is spewing out these rays into the universe around it.
Dan Wilkins, who made the observations, saw a number of thrilling, but not unusual, bright X-ray flares. Then, the telescopes caught a surprise: more X-ray flashes that were smaller, later, and had different “colors” than the bright flares.